GRAMIKA INDIA

‘GRAMIKA’ is the abbreviation of “GRAssroots Management Institute for Knowledge and Action.” It was founded by A.N.Pandey who had the opportunity of learning social reformative activities in the close guidance of LokNayak Jaya Prakash Narayan or JP, as people call him, during the years 1969 to 1978. Mr. Pandey worked in Gram Nirman Mandal, a society for rural development, founded by JP, till 1988, except during his deputation with OXFAM as Field Officer in Eastern India Office, Ranchi for a period of three years and in a Ford Foundation and OXFAM-America jointly funded women empowerment project for three years. Purpose behind establishing GRAMIKA India was to put the entire experience and knowledge into practice in a concentrated area by its founder.

GRAMIKA India has established a close and long contact with the people of Deori, Tisri, Gawan and Jamua blocks in Giridih district of Jharkhand in course of working among small farmers, SC and ST communities and women.

Efforts of GRAMIKA India in empowering women through 800 numbers of SHG have met with reasonable success. Studies of IMR and MMR, streamlining services of ICDS through community mobilization in collaboration with CARE have also been well accomplished. Promotion of System of Rice Intensification-SRI and production of certified seeds of paddy from foundation seed by local farmers in collaboration with NABARD have proved gainful for the farmers.

Presently the organization is trying to enhance income of the farmers by introducing various ways of vegetable cultivation including introduction of trellis system as effective means of income generation of the farmers. A concept of Agri Entrepreneurship development and involvement of Community Resource Person-CRP and Local Resource Person-LRP are under experimentation.

GRAMIKA India is a non-profit organization registered under Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 in 1994 in undivided Bihar and subsequently in 2007 in Jharkhand. Later on it got registered under 12A of Income Tax Act 1961 and Foreign Contribution Regulation Act 1976 which has been renewed in 2010.

CONTACT DETAILS

Name  of the Founder : A.N.Pandey
Name of the Director/Sanchalak: Dr. Naveen Kumar
Village-Bakarganj, Post office-Kisgo,
Via-Raj Dhanwar, District-Giridih
State-Jharkhand
PIN Code-825 412

E-mail: gramika.india@gmail.com
Mobile: +918294104807

Geographical Presence: Giridih, Koderma, Dumka

Areas Of Operations: Livelihood- Formation of SHG, Health, Education, Agriculture- Vegetable Cultivation, SRI